Chem's Custom Shmup-Marquees

[waiwainl]

Extremely good looking!

[denson]

Really nice work there! Makes me wish I had some photoshop skills!

[OlDirty]

What a shame the marquees can't be downloaded somewhere

[Chempop]

It’ll happen eventually. I’m honestly no pro with photoshop, these are far from perfect and I’ve held off on making them public to save myself the embarrassment for my half assed approach. Also, some of the images I use are pretty low res, which doesn’t bother me because it just adds some pixels when enlarged (it’s video game art afterall), but I can imagine some getting annoyed that they aren’t ‘spectre-quality’

[TheRedKnight]

Just release them with a "by Mikonos" watermark.

[Chempop]

[Chempop]

I’m working on my template, last one matched the stock blue marquee which was an extra inch long. I think my new one is a little cleaner, but have to make a proof first.

Do you guys like the brown (left) or purple tone (right) better? I tried to make the art fit the blast motif/colorway a tad more.

[Jan]

please do some Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION art

alot of material is available on the Nesica and Homepage.

[geotrig]

purple toned one is better

[RMRM]

I think the left one looks 10 times better. Really nice one.

[KmanSweden]

please do some Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION art

alot of material is available on the Nesica and Homepage.

I hade tha same idea this morning.

[Jan]

stuff i have collected so far that might come Handy

https://goo.gl/photos/8EUAYo82oAr73i9C9

[Jan]

Mark my words, the Gentleman's Sausage that asked 5000€ for his SaiDaiOuJou kit will show up to show his CC Repro art.

[Chempop]

hmm none of the Crimzon Clover art really strikes me but i’ll give it a whirl later anyway. I’m eventually going to have the game running in a Blast City, so I’ll have to come up with something.

As for resizing stuff for the egret rectangular and astro trapezoid shaped marquee holders, not really a priority at this point.

[emphatic]

Care to share the psd file you use as a base? I was asked to make one for DeathSmiles, but I don't have a SEGA cabinet. It would work for a NNC too, right? I would share the DeathSmiles marquee of course, as I always do, just wanted to skip the ground work if possible.

[Chempop]

Care to share the psd file you use as a base? I was asked to make one for DeathSmiles, but I don't have a SEGA cabinet. It would work for a NNC too, right? I would share the DeathSmiles marquee of course, as I always do, just wanted to skip the ground work if possible.

Do you mean the empty frame in the correct size? I asked a handful of people the same and everyone was quite anal about sharing So I made one that was really quite rough. Sadly I'm not pro with this at all. I think I just used the marquee art that's on the blast city art AOwiki page here and made a white trapezoid with curved edges the same size. Chances are you can do a much better job with it than I ever could. All that stuff is on an old computer I've been lazy to import to my current rig. Sorry I can't be of more help right now.

[emphatic]

Thanks for the pointers. I know some people in the scene believe time spent by default means money owed, but I always do stuff for free unless someone gifts me cash afterwards without me asking for it, which is a nice bonus.